How did it come to happen that ‘happen’ came from ‘come’?
Do you know how to say ‘happen’ in Chinuk Wawa?
Monthly Archive: April, 2020
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tʰíl & ‘hard times’
Father Lionnet’s 1853 dictionary gloss of Jargon tʰil as French dur got me thinking…
A Salish etymology for ‘aphrodisiac’
A word you might like to know in Chinuk Wawa is płə́x̣ ‘medicine, aphrodisiac’.
-ni/-li?
In honor of the Northwest Indian Language Institute (NILI) and all of the good work it’s done for Chinuk Wawa, let me talk about -ni/-li 🙂
Is berdache a naughty Canadian word?
George Gibbs’s 1863 dictionary tells us that < bur-dash > is a Chinuk Wawa word….
Not all Chinuk Wawa adverbs are created equal
Proceeding from my post on Laura Belle Downey-Bartlett’s “Last Rose of Summer” translation…
I’m cuckoo for ko-ko!
Shimmy shimmy ko-ko pop! Fun fun thoughts about reduplication today.
Digging into púlali
The origins of Chinuk Wawa púlali ‘dust; powder’ have been argued over for quite some time.
Stress on French words in Jargon
Word stress in Chinuk Wawa is pretty predictable…with a big exception.